Is GitOps a Broken Experience - Where Is the Ops in GitOps? Improving Infrastructure Observability and Operational Control

Explore a conference talk that examines the operational challenges and limitations of GitOps frameworks through the lens of Walmart's extensive Kubernetes deployment experience. Learn how GitOps excels at translating pre-defined states but falls short in providing real-time system visibility and handling immediate operational concerns during outages. Discover insights from Walmart's journey managing over 200,000 workloads and 10,000 daily deployments across thousands of Kubernetes clusters in both public and private cloud environments. Understand the development of complementary operational tooling solutions that enhance infrastructure observability and provide critical deployment state information to address the gaps in traditional GitOps approaches.